Sobralia stenophylla (Sampled Red List Index Flora of Peru)

Sobralia stenophylla

Common Name ²

Thin Leafed Sobralia

Location ³

There is one record of this orchid in the Peruvian Central Andes which is an outlier to the main range.
Also found in Venezuela (Bolivar), Guyana, French Guiana, Suriname (Funk 2007) and adjacent northern Brazil (Roraima) (Hoehne 1945).

Habitat ⁴

This orchid grows in small to very large sub-populations, in various riparian habitats. It is locally common and can be abundant on riverbanks, by waterfalls and in bogs. It is found in Gallery forest, shrubby Savanna, rocky river margins and on, or at the base of, isolated rocky hills or table top-mountains. This orchid grows in full sun to partial shade, as a terrestrial or sub-aquatic. It is often found along the periodically flooded margins of fast-flowing, black-water rivers, over sandstone or on sandy soils. It is reported to occur in five ecoregions: The Guianan Highlands Moist Forests, the Guianan moist forests, the Guiana Savanna, the Pantepui and the Peruvian Yungas ecoregions to 750 - 2,000 m.

Description ²

A small to medium sized, hot to cool growing terrestrial with an erect, terete stem enveloped completely by leafless and leaf-bearing above sheaths and carrying several distichous, rigidly coriaceous, linear, plicate, 7 nerved, acute leaves and blooms on a 2" [5 cm] long, successively few flowered inflorescence with inflated, acuminate floral bracts and fleshy flowers

References ²

Romand-Monnier, F. & Chadburn, H. 2013. Sobralia stenophylla. In: IUCN 2013. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.
http://www.orchidspecies.com/sobstenophylla.htm

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Adapted by consci2014 from a work by (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28331946
Adapted by consci2014 from a work by (c) International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources, some rights reserved (CC BY-NC-SA), http://eol.org/data_objects/28331948